PowerPoint Animation Schemes Grayed Out
If you find that the entries under "Animation Schemes" in Microsoft PowerPoint
2003 are grayed out, you may need to change a PowerPoint option setting. For
instance, if you click on "Slide Show" and select "Animation Schemes", but see
that the Animation Schemes entries are
unavailable, i.e. they are grayed out, then the "New animation effects" option
may be set to "disabled". To re-enable the Animation Schemes effects, within
PowerPoint, click on "Tools", then "Options" and then make sure that "New
animation effects", under "Disable new features", is not checked.
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Transferring a PowerPoint Presentation with Music to Another PC
Someone who created a PowerPoint presentation with photos and music
for a Christmas party told me that the music wasn't playing when
she put her presentation on a CD and then transferred the CD
to a laptop. I discovered first that the music would need to be
inserted as sound files rather than by using "Play audio CD track"
when inserting the music into the PowerPoint Presentation. Once
I found a Windows Media Player playlist on her system that pointed
to the relevant music files in WMA format under her My Documents\My Music
folder, I was able to reinsert the music as sound files and then use
PowerPoint's "Package for CD" feature to put the presentation on a CD
with the music included, which allowed the presentation to work as
intended from the laptop.
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PowerPoint Viewer
For those who may need to view or print a PowerPoint presentation,
but don't need the capability to create or edit PowerPoint
presentations, Microsoft offers a free PowerPoint viewer.
Links to download viewers for other Office applications can be found
at
Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers.
Viewer:
PowerPointViewer 97
Download Size: 2789 KB
Date Published: 2/20/2004
Version: 2000
Requirements:
- Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT
- A personal computer with a 486 or higher processor
- Microsoft Windows 95, 98, or 2000 operating system, or Microsoft Windows NT Workstation operating system 3.51 (with Service Pack 5.x or later) or 4.0, or
Microsoft Windows ME
- 7 MB of hard disk space (9 MB free for installation only)
- VGA or higher-resolution video adapter
- Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
Comments: for users who don't have Microsoft PowerPoint®; it allows
them to view PowerPoint 95, 97, 2000, and 2002 presentations. This PowerPoint
viewer supports all PowerPoint 95 and PowerPoint 97 features, but the following
PowerPoint 2000 and 2002 features are not supported:
- Picture bullets
- Automatic numbering
- Animated GIF pictures
- Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) controls
- ActiveX® controls are not supported by the viewer
Viewer:
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer
Download Size: 1911 KB
Date Published: 9/15/2003
Version: 1
Requirements: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, Windows 98 Second Edition,
Windows ME, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP
Comments: The Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Viewer lets you view
full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. The
PowerPoint 2003 Viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft
PowerPoint presentations. This viewer doesn't suport the following features:
- Information Rights Management (IRM) presentations.
- Running macros, programs, or opening linked or embedded objects.
If you don't have Service Pack 3 or later on a Windows 2000 system, you
should use the PowerPointViewer 97. You can check which service pack
you have installed by clicking on
Start,
Run, and then
typing
Winmsd. The system summary will show you the
OS Name
and the
Version. If you don't see Service Pack 3 or later listed
next to the version for a Windows 2000 system, then use the earlier
PowerPoint viewer.
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